Writers' Day Jobs
Wasn't Bukowski also a postal worker? Anyway, this is fabulous. I really love your delivery and the writing is so insightful and clear. I would definitely tune into this show. Really great job. Where can I hear you now?
elizabeth
news director
morning host/producer
kisu 91.1 fm pocatello, idaho
That makes me feel so much better about my advertising work. Although I'm starting to think that all writers' day jobs should be anything but writing. It is possible to be "written out" by the end of the day. No pun intended.
This was one of the most pleasurable listens so far - you're a wealth of knowledge about this subject, and your deivery is confident and engaging.
I'd most definitely listen.
Nice job, and good luck!
You left a great comment on Wojtek's piece www.publicradioquest.com/user/8449, a piece I will be waking up and thinking about in the middle of the night I'm sure. And so I followed that piece of string, and discovered not only did you create a five star entry about authors, but my husband and I also wake up to your show every morning! We purposely set the alarm so the first thing we hear every morning is the Writer's Almanac ... Garrison Keillor's voice the perfect way to wake up, and then a tidbit on a writer and then the poem, and to think I actually get to thank the producer! I knew there was a reason I entered this contest. But if you win this contest, who will wake us up in the morning???? Jill
Well, Garrison's voice would still be there to wake you up. And you could start setting an alarm to remind you to listen to my show :)
Just let me know when you're going to be on your new show and I promise I'll listen ... and if you ever need a reference librarian on board to help pick poems, let me know. How DO you pick the poems?? Out of a hat, or is there an actual library involved with the show? Copyright and Walt Whitman what a great combo! J.
This is really interesting stuff, presented nicely, but you did not pull it together and make a point. You just spouted little stories. It's like the very very beginning of a TAL episode where Ira hasn't yet gotten to the part where he tells us the theme of the show. All setup, no punch.
You caught my attention, you reeled me in and you gave the pay-off.
5 Big ones for you Rob! *****
Sallyfranz
"Both faith and fear are the belief in things not seen." S. Franz
Here's your winner right here Public Radio. Finally a program that means something.
You packed a lot of interesting information into those two minutes. Well done!
Jim Barfuss
http://www.publicradioquest.com/user/2824
“It is not success to succeed at being something you are not.”
Thanks for the comments on my entry. I enjoyed yours very much as well. And I love Writer's Almanac.
Good luck in the competition!
This is the strongest entry I've heard tonight.
Very entertaining piece - I love windows onto the sometimes mundane moments in prominent peoples' lives. Good luck!
The radio show I work on is The Writer's Almanac. Here's a link to the stations and times when it airs.
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/stations/list.php
Thanks for all the comments.
I really enjoyed your entry. Where does your show air?
Elizabeth
Well written, fascinating topic, great voice, super research. Very nice.
You're just the man to fill the void left by Imus!
Phenomenal content-- interesting, strange, poignant, and funny. I also really enjoy your speaking voice, easy on the ears and simple to follow. This is a really strong entry, Rob. Thanks and good luck!
~laurel
http://www.publicradioquest.com/audio/user/6371
*A first kiss, a dental emergency, identifying the Big Man on Campus and talking back to Punky Brewster.
Sparkling, no doubt.
Your skill at finding obscure information and then talent for making it entertaining is amazing, Rob!
I love this entry. Very clear, very nice voice and very witty...without trying too hard. Good luck! You have my vote.
http://www.publicradioquest.com/audio/user/4183
Rachelle Atkins
Freelance Writer
does that mean I'll never be famous? *****
http://www.TinaDybvik.net
No. It just means that if you do get to be famous, you'll be one of those writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald who never really had to toil very hard before they struck it rich. The interesting part of your story will be the limelight and then the downward spiral.
Perhaps you mean that your day job is freelance writing or technical writing of some kind. In that case, you'd be in the same company as Amy Tan or Barbara Kingsolver. Now all you need to do to become famous (aside from winning this contest) is take a trip to China (as Amy Tan did), or get pregnant and begin to suffer from insomnia, which forces you to spend your nights writing fiction rather than sleeping (as Barbara Kingsolver did).
Nice piece. I also liked the image you gave me of writers as some kind of superhero.
Which means that superman was actually Clark Kent's secret identity. Nice.
-Rich
- Watch More Radio
Texas Radio Theatre
That's one more than Ed McMahon could have given you.
Nice bit! Great diction, intonation, all that good radio stuff. And interesting topic too.
what is your day job, right now, before you hit it big?
Steve
No one should, look back with regret on all that they never did: the beauties they did not see, the music they did not hear, the flavors they did not taste, the aromas they did not inhale, the sensations they did not feel.
This is one of the best "straight reading" ones I've come across, but maybe that's cause I'm a book geek! Where can I hear your radio show?
Good luck to you, this is an excellent submission!
Be Baffled By Bafflegab!-->
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"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy" - Spike Milligan
That is just too funny. I love this - it made me laugh out loud.
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